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Self-Awareness InventoryAs you probe the possibilities for your speech of introduction, explore the following self-awareness inventory: Speaker s Notes yourself and others to be quite rewarding. Just remember: You are not on a tabloid talk show. You don t want to embarrass listeners with personal disclosures they would just as soon not hear. If you are uncertain about whether to include personal material, discuss it with your instructor. The general rule to follow is, When in doubt, leave it out! 1. Was your cultural background important in shaping you? 2. Was your environment a major influence? 3. Did some person have an impact on you? 4. Were you shaped by an unusual experience? 5. Is there an activity that motivates you? 6. Has your work had a major impact on who you are? 7. Does some special goal or purpose guide the way you live? 8. Does a value have great meaning for you? Public Speaking, Eighth Edition, by Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn and Randall Osborn. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 3 Your First Speech: An Overview of Speech Preparation 67 1. Although we have defined ethos in terms of public speakers, other communicators also seek to create favorable impressions of competence, integrity, goodwill, and dynamism. Advertisers always try to create favorable ethos for their products. Bring to class print advertisements to demonstrate each of the four dimensions of ethos we have discussed. Explain how each ad uses ethos. 2. Select a prominent public speaker and analyze his or her ethos. On which dimensions is this speaker especially strong or weak? How do these dimensions affect the person s leadership ability? Present your analysis for class discussion. 3. Political advertisements often do the work of introducing candidates to the public and disparaging their opponents. Study the television or print advertisements in connection with a recent political campaign. Bring to class answers to the following questions: a. What kinds of positive and negative identities do the advertisements establish? b. Which of the forms of supporting material (narratives, examples, testimony, facts and statistics) do they emphasize? c. Which of these advertisements are most and least effective in creating the desired ethos? Why? d. Which of the self-awareness inventory questions discussed in this chapter might explain how the candidates are introduced? 4. As the introductory speeches are presented in your class, build a collection of word portraits of your classmates as they reveal themselves in their speeches. At the end of the assignment, analyze each of these autobios to see what you have learned about the class as a whole. What kinds of topics might your classmates prefer? Do you detect any strong political or social attitudes to which you might have to adjust? Submit a report of your analysis to your instructor, and keep a copy for your own use in preparing later speeches. 5. Summarize your own adventure of preparing for your first speech. Which of the steps identified in this chapter were most difficult for you? Why? What have you learned about speech preparation that might be useful for your next speech? Submit your report and analysis to your instructor. Explore and Apply the Ideas in This Chapter Public Speaking, Eighth Edition, by Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn and Randall Osborn. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. A Little Chocolate Sabrina Karic Sabrina Karic gave this self-introductory speech to her class at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Her speech is built round a master narrative that features personal experience as the shaping force in her life. She tells about surviving the ethnic cleansing that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the early 1990s when she was a child. As she described this situation, her listeners were spellbound by her power and passion. [To start her speech, Sabrina plays a sound effect of an explosion.] I want you to remember yourselves as you were when you were six years old. And now I want you to imagine yourselves living in a time, a place, a country, where you constantly hear the noise I have just played, all around you. I come from a small, incredibly durable, unspeakably tragic country named Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, while many of you were playing with your toys or learning how to ride a bike, I was living through a nightmare. Yes, I was six years old, not quite ready to experience war. But on the day of May 28, I heard the first gun shots and my happy childhood ended. Almost overnight, my family, which had been rich and privileged, plunged into homelessness and poverty. After the Serbs forced us out of our home, we had to endure endless nights sleeping under trees while rain poured down on us and mice crawled over our bodies. We finally made our way to Gorazde, a city that was surrounded by the Serbians and held under siege for months. The local authorities kept us all barely alive by distributing food among the families. Typically we would receive each week thirty pounds of flour, three pounds of beans, one pound of sugar, and two liters of oil. Each day, my mom made bread that was one inch thick. She divided it in half; one half for breakfast and the other for dinner. Then each half was divided in five even pieces, one piece for me, my mom, my dad, my sister, and my cousin, who at that time lived with us. It was incredibly hard for us. We often ran out of food before the next week s food distribution. Sometimes the supplies were delayed or even not available. I can tell you that nothing etches itself more in young memory than the pain of hunger. During those days, I never dreamed of having a big house, a pool, or a doll I could play with. I simply prayed to God for chocolate. On January 31st of 1993, my parents decided to leave for Grebak, where the Bosnian army was situated. They would have to sneak through the enemy lines to reach the army barracks. If they survived, the army would give them food to bring back to us. If they didn t make it well, we didn t talk about that. If they didn t try, we were all going to starve anyway. When my parents departed, they had to leave my sister and me on our own. Luckily, we had cousins who lived in Gorazde long before the war began. They took us in, and I can tell you that if it hadn t been for them, we would have starved to death. Days passed, and each day we waited for our parents. And our despair began to grow. We heard rumors that they had run into mine fields and been killed. We felt so profoundly alone. Then on February 7th, a miracle happened. The door opened, and there were our parents! I remember all the crying and hugging and kissing, and I remember hope flooding back into our hearts. Our parents explained that many people had in fact died, but that God had spared them. That day I learned the meaning of gratitude, as well as sorrow for all of those whose parents would not return. But then our thoughts turned to food. My parents Date: 2015-02-16; view: 1734
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